Phylogenetic analyses of rates of LCNS divergence reveal that the disparity between chicken/zebra finch and human/mouse appears to be due to rapid evolution of the mouse genome, but we also find an effect of slow evolution within the Reptilia, as evidenced by the short branches in that clade (fig. 4 D ).
We analysed the evolution of the mouse PSG sequences, and compared them to rat, human and baboon PSGs to attempt to understand the evolution of this complex gene family.
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Therefore, an ancestral role for PHLDA2 in the yolk sac might have been transferred to the chorioallantoic placenta during the evolution of the mouse.
These are enriched in genes associated with reproduction, reflecting an influence of sexual competition on the evolution of the mouse genome [ 1].
Specifically for immune gene families, recent analysis at the cDNA sequence level of pig, mouse and human has shown that the great majority of human genes that were lost through evolution in the mouse were retained in the pig.
In order to characterise the evolution of the mouse Psgs with expanded domain numbers, Neighbor-Joining (NJ) trees with bootstrap values of 1000 were prepared (Fig. 3A) and ClustalW amino acid sequence alignments (Fig. 3B) were studied to identify the origin of the novel IgV-like domains in these three exceptional Psgs.
It is interesting to note, however, that Dio1 (iodothyronine deiodinase), which is downregulated in most dwarf mouse strains and under CR (see Fig. 8), has been associated with positive selection and accelerated evolution within the mouse-chimp-human lineage (see supplemental data from [ 74]).
Mammals are a diverse group in which to examine development and evolution, and besides the mouse and the rat used in biomedical research, provide subjects based on which experimental (Harjunmaa et al. 2014; Montandon et al. 2014; Parsons et al. 2015) and comparative (Cooper et al. 2014) studies have provided major insights.
The results are consistent with the divergence of human S100A7 and S100A15 occurring by duplication after the human/mouse split in evolution, and thus the mouse gene is likely ancestral to both human paralogs.
